It could be argued that Mr. Gens has taken the only approach possible for someone not in the front lines of the African struggle.
This was reflected in the United States in the African American struggle for self-determination.
His legal work was centrally connected with the South African struggles until his arrest in 1963 - much of it concerned with political detainees.
The show is "a musical chronicle of the African American struggle for equality during the [first half of the] 20th century."
While he's become a symbol of the South African struggle, it's amazing the level of ignorance about the man.
But van der Post's most significant influence occurred during the South African struggle over apartheid, Mr. Jones says.
Within the United States, participants in the African American struggle for equality called for human rights in addition to civil rights.
The civil rights struggle was about elementary justice; the South African struggle was partly about justice, but also about power.
He compared the African struggle for rights to the earlier Afrikaans struggle, citing precedents for temperate sentencing, even in cases of treason.
Mr. Bush called apartheid "repugnant" but added that all sides in the South African struggle should renounce violence and repression.